“thou hast councilled a better course than thou hast allowed”

Entries from December 2010

New Study: When NBA Players Touch Teammates More, They and Their Teams Play Better – Bob Sutton Players who touched their teammates more had higher "Win scores," defined as "a performance measure that accounts for the positive impact a player has on his team’s success (rebounds, points, assists, blocks, steals) while also accounting for the […]

Why Good Advice Sometimes Feels So Bad – Edward Hallowell – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review Support that is too blatant risks making the recipient feel as if he needed support, which is not a feeling most people in the workplace feel comfortable acknowledging. Well-intended though it may be, visible support can backfire, and […]

BUSINESS EXPOSED: The looks of a leader These Swiss people would never have seen and did not know anything about these sets of two candidates. Subsequently they asked them “who do you think will win this election?” In 72% of the cases, having seen only the two photographs, people predicted the results of the elections […]

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I work in marketing, and am fascinated by the things that work and
the things that don't; as I'm on the analytics side, it's up to me to
decide what working should look like and how we should achieve
it.